Maybe this is the right place for a table of contents of Richard Palliser´s

Starting out : d-pawn attacks (Everyman 2008, 272 pages)

004  Bibliography
005  Introduction
          - The Colle-Zukertort
          - The Barry Attack
          - The 150 Attack
          - Do these three attacks promise an objective advantage?
          - Is this a complete repertoire for white?
009  1  The Colle-Zukertort against ...Be7 set-ups
          - The early moves
          - Black plays ...Nc6
          - Black plays ...Nbd7
          - An early ...b6
052  2  The Colle-Zukertort against ...Bd6 set-ups
          - Introduction
          - Black plays ...Nbd7
          - Black plays ...Nc6
          - The main line 8...Qe7
111  3  Other Defences to the Colle-Zukertort
          - Rare approaches
          - An early check
          - The Colle-Zukertort against the Semi-Slav
140  4  The Colle Queen´s Indian
          - Introduction
          - A Colle-Zukertort approach
          - The e3 Queen´s Indian
          - A tricky move order: 2...b6
189  5  The Barry Attack
          - Introduction
          - The solid 4...c6
          - The Tarzan attack
214  6  The Main Line Barry
          - White plays 5e3
          - Black plays 6...c5
          - Forcing White to go short: 7Ne5 Nc6
246  7  The 150 Attack
          - Introduction
          - Black castles quickly
          - Black delays castling
          - The 150 attack against the Modern
267  Index of variations
271  Index of complete games

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Maybe I´m a little bit stronger than the targeted audience 
(club players 1400-2000 ?!) and further I had more general 
interests for buying this book (as Palliser always makes a 
good job and as I´m interested in some transpositions after 
1b3!). Seems to be a good and very readable book about 
these systems. I don´t know if I would recommend to anyone 
to play the Colle-Zukertort, but if you have decided to do so 
then this is definitely the book to learn from - a must buy!

Btw, Palliser doesn´t cover white set-ups (and especially no 
C-Z set-ups!) against Slav, delayed Grünfeld, Dutch and Benoni. 
Maybe dissapointing for some readers but certainly more honest 
than other authors.
Looking only at some free pages of the Zuke´em book it becomes 
obviously for any serious chess student that Rudel´s book contains 
much rubbish...

tracke

Zuke'em - The Colle Zukertort Revolutionized......

Finally, That book is on my hands and what a surprise...

It is like having the Author in front of you talking to you about the opening with so much love that I never see before on any of the other books of my collection (and is quite big).

What imprested me the most is the very detailed explanation of practical ideas that the author spend a lot of time to teach you of what each piece role is on that opening.

I don’t care if he is not "titled" since these days with Computers and databases everyone can write a book, but definitely that guy put a lot of work to get that book out to press.

from Author Bio "David Rudel is a published Mathematician that won Texas state Championships in both math and physics, taught at Dartmouth, and was on the highest ranking team among all undergraduate institutions in the 1997 Pytnam competition"....

So, I guess that author is a smart guy and he deserve people to take him more seriously and not bashing him because he decide to write a book of chess without having a title but instead give it a try and they will not be disappointed.

Overall, the humor, attitude and feeling of that book is like having a conversation with someone that loves that opening so much that decide to reveal all his secrets in your expense.   

I do own the book of Lane and Summerscale and that book here definitely takes the cake on my view. Definitely different from any other book that you read and is worth every penny that I spend to get it.

Well done David!

Antillian wrote on 07/21/08 at 13:24:25:


Oh, I got the joke and I liked it. I just could not resist the temptation of turning your joke against you.   And I thought I had made clear that I doubt very much the validity Rudel's (self-claimed?) expert status. I also want to add that I am not very amused by the trick of an author promoting himself via an alias. As I had not got it I feel deceived. It is very recommendable that any author promotes his work on this site - under his own name. I am not sorry for Mr. Rudel, this is the decisive reason for me not to buy his book. I see Zukertort's comments on his favourite opening in another, rather negative light.

Zukertort wrote on 07/20/08 at 23:44:12:

Indeed  does not write that Burgess had ELO 1600 when writing his first chessbook.
Quote:

Even for a native Dutch speaker like me this is crystal clear.

Funny to read that Silman has some long toes as well.

Antillian wrote on 07/21/08 at 01:22:10:

As all books on nuclear physics have been written by more than qualified people and none of these books are readable for the common (wo)man, this actually is an argument in favour of Zukertort. This does not mean though that I agree with Zukertort. The lower the rating of the author the more sceptical we should be. I mean, I know a little about very few variations, but I would not call myself an expert, even if I have something sensible to say now and then.

Zukertort wrote on 07/19/08 at 19:24:35:


Wow! What a sales pitch. Buy this book even though it might be terrible like Schiller's. Remind me not to hire you to do sales for my company. 

kylemeister wrote on 07/19/08 at 19:43:06:


I am basing the Burgess remark on Silman's review of "The Queen's Indian" by Aagaard (http://www.jeremysilman.com/book_reviews_js/js_queen_indian_defence.html)

Why a review of Aagaard's book has anything to do Burgess' work I'll let you read to find out.

You guys are welcome to write in to Jeremy and ask him about why he is publishing "bul$hit verging on libel."

As for the rest, you guys are awfully confident in your ability to judge a book you've never read written by a person you don't know.

Given that the author shipped at his own expense every person in the US who bought the original version a free copy of the revised (so you might well find several copies of that original version by such customers), it's hard to suggest that profit-motive is the driving force here.

I should have thought it was obvious that Zukertort = David Rudel = the author of "Zuke 'Em!".

BTW, he's selling the typo-ridden 1st edition of his book, published by Thinker's Press (which nowadays is merely a vanity press - the author pays to have the book printed) on eBay for the low, low price of $44.37 [yes, forty-four dollars and thirty-seven cents] plus shipping, as a collectible.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=190237367463&ssPageName=...

No bidders so far, but don't let that stop you...